Fire Saboteurs Posters and Vichy Assurances Stir Debate
The piece discusses FBI anti sabotage posters urging vigilance in defense industries. It contrasts claimed Vichy assurances on cooperation with Nazis against US fears of untracked German influence in Western Hemisphere colonies, arguing for cautious, realistic policy and continued security measures.
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Morgantown Post
Associated Press
Washington
State Department
Vichy
Martinique
Atlantic
Hall
Hitler
French Guiana
Great Britain
United States
How Are Your Bedside Manners
In a Cleveland hospital nurses play a game to guess if visitors are jiggers who calm patients or goons who unsettle them. Read about sensible tips for visiting the ill, including consulting the doctor, avoiding visits when overwhelmed, and thoughtful acts like helping the patient’s family with small gestures or outings to lift spirits.
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Cleveland
Chamberlain
Life Magazine
Four Hundred Youths To Attend Mountaineer Boys State
Four hundred high school juniors from every West Virginia county will begin a week of government training Sunday at the sixth annual Mountaineer Boys State in Jackson's Mill. Sponsored by the American Legion, 400 delegates and 50 counselors will attend, selected on scholastic merit and divided into groups for the program.
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Jackson's Mill
West Virginia
Mountaineer
G. Stanley Hamric
Charleston
American Legion
Gibraltar and Dakar in Axis invasion talk by Stewart
Stewart analyzes a possible Axis overland march from France through Spain to Dakar, noting Franco’s regime, Spanish guerilla resistance, and the Gibraltar Strait as a key hurdle. He weighs British naval defense, potential Spanish conditions, and Portugal’s stance, predicting risky outcomes if Dakar falls.
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Charles P. Stewart
Central Press
Begum
Dakar
Claude Pepper
Uncle Sams
Atlantic
Axcis
France
Hitler
Spain
Caudillo
Duce
Spanish
Adolf
Benito
John Bull
Axia
Gibraltar
Axis
Africa
British’ Navy
Staays
Iberian Peninsula
Alfonso
Primo de Rivera
Republic
Franco
Caudillo Franco
Italy
Germany
Herr Hitler
Portugal
Lisbon
United States
England
Model railroad turns deadly mystery ends in mistaken guilt
Henry Potter narrates a stormy night with a model railroad club where John Ives is killed. Suspicions fall on banker Stanley King after a gun and a suspect bullet appear. The next day King is released as ballistics rule the injury is circumstantial, while Henry confronts trust in the club and his own role in the affair.
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Teney Potter
Checkers
Ecks
Long
Sonerard
Miuiroad
Battaril
Hans
Svenson
Professor Bisbee
Aanker Fey “King
Marela
Gisan Baker
John. Ives
Hylverte
Chia
Henry
Mr. King
Leisure Hour Club
Checker Club
Mode Railroad Club
Stanley King
The
Coast Railroad
Ives
King
Potter
Martha
Richard
Pop
Martha Antigenat
John Ives
Henry Rose
Rail traffic decline and ship Columbus incident noted
The article compares 1922 and 1941 Baltimore and Ohio train service showing many local and express routes abandoned across divisions while a handful remain. It also reports the German liner Columbus sunk by her crew near Virginia on December 19 1939 and mentions Adm Raeder’s remarks on enforcing ceasefire against hostile actions at sea.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Grafton
Belington
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Columbus
Virginia
U. S
Tuscaloosa
Raeder
German Admiral warns convoys mean war in Atlantic
Admiral Raeder denounces Allied convoy policy in the Atlantic as a violation of neutrality. He cites sinking of HMS Hood and damage to King George V class battleship, arguing patrols support Britain and justify retaliation under sea warfare. He repeats Roosevelt on convoys as gunfire politics and warns against extending patrols.
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Britain
Hood
Atlantic
Raeder
FDR
Roosevelt
English golf courses turned to vegetable plots
A satirical remark notes that greens keepers resemble spinach farmers as English golf courses are repurposed into vegetable plots, highlighting a humorous shift in scenery and skill.
Americans To Leave Berlin After Zamzam Rescue
Berlin May 26 authorized sources said all American women and children and other men deemed genuine missionaries rescued from the sunken Egyptian liner Zamzam may depart for home as soon as arrangements can be made. Remaining male refugees are under investigation and to be released one by one after harmless status is confirmed.
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Berlin
Wnder
Charles de Gaulle
West Virginia Sealed Proposals for Webster Overhead Bridge Project
The State Road Commission of West Virginia invites sealed proposals by June 10, 1941 for the Webster Overhead Bridge project on State Road 204 D 1 in Wayne County. Includes two 80 ft and one 92 ft I beam spans on a concrete substructure. One contract with a $3500 certified check. The commission reserves the right to reject any or all proposals.
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State Road Commission of
West Virginia
Charleston
Aytor
Webster Overhead
Board of Education
County of
Taylor
Board of
Grafton
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
America
Amelia
National Board of Five Underwriters
Arden
Oniie Oe
National Board
Etter
Jtgat
Assur Ves
Times West Virginian
Taylor County
Lakin
Stewart
Adolf Hitler
James F. Lakin
State Board of Control
Grafton Rotary
Boys Industral School
Children’s Aid Society
Bulding
Faples
Philip
Barbour County
Department of Public Assistance
L. W. Burns
Bureau of Labor
Ployer
Iriers
Houghton
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